I used to be a lead for a certain green-aproned coffee company out of Seattle.
About two years in, after receiving the best possible review with the highest possible marks in every category, the raise I was given was…10 cents per hour.
Four bucks a week? You're rewarding your top-reviewed hourly employee a whole four bucks a week for my documented excellent work? That's literally only 16 bucks a month. Before tax. Hella insulting.
I got another gig right away and gave my two weeks, and I told them exactly why I was leaving.
Not only did they not offer to adjust my raise (“our hands are tied”), they said I *couldn't* leave in two weeks because we had inventory coming up in 13 days and everyone had to be there for it, no exceptions.
I remember laughing in their faces in that meeting. Like, catch me on the airplane and make me come back for inventory, bitches.
I DON'T WORK HERE ANYMORE.
Okay, so this wasn't exactly antiwork, but man it sure made me anti that place.